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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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  • How did Dr. King help the African American bus riders in Birmingham, Alabama?
    He organized a boycott so that no one would ride the city buses.
  • Dr. King believed that all people can learn to ___________________.
    live in peace, respect each other, get along together.
  • Segregation means
    Rules and laws that kept people of different races apart from each other.
  • What did Martin study in college?
    Religion or Divinity (the study of how people worship).
  • When Martin was growing up, black and white people could not go to the same _____________________.
    restaurants, bathrooms, water fountains, public parks, beaches, or swimming pools
  • As a boy, what did Martin want to be when he grew up?
    A minister of a church like his father.
  • What was unusual about Martin's years in high school?
    He finished in two years when most students need four years.
  • Describe the event from Martin's childhood that shaped his life.
    The mother of his white friends told Martin he could no longer play with her children.
  • Rosa Parks was arrested and taken to jail.
    False
    True
  • In what month was Dr. King born?
    January
    February
    December
    October
  • Many people disagreed with Dr. King's ideas and tried to stop him.
    True
    False
  • When Martin came home upset one day, what did his mother tell him?
    You are just as good as anyone. What's in your heart, not the color of your skin, is what really matters.
  • What job did Martin's father have?
    minister of a church
  • MLK was killed when he tried to help sanitation workers demand better working conditions.
    True
    False
  • Dr. King was arrested and taken to jail.
    False
    True
  • In what city and state was Martin born?
    Atlanta, Georgia
  • Integration means
    Bringing together people of different races.
  • Martin's mother taught him to read before he started school.
    False
    True
  • Name the woman whose actions helped to change bus laws in Birmingham, Alabama.
    Rosa Parks
  • What did Mrs. Parks refuse to do on the bus?
    Surrender her seat to another passenger.